Full-Stack Engineer (Senior Associate)

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per month 

 

 

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

 

 

Job Description 

We are looking for a Full-stack Engineer to design and execute our company’s modern software development strategy. You will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of Insurance applications in the cloud. You will be responsible for the development of applications in various areas of insurance such as underwriting, risk, pricing and more using modern programming languages to be hosted on cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Azure, etc. You will be responsible for the design and deployment of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems. You will also be responsible for the evaluation of key attributes of existing application architectures, evolution, and enhancements to the infrastructure, product ideation and technology stack selection, and work with other engineers to define execution architectures and strategies. 

The individual should have 2+ years of hands-on application development experience supporting ranging from front-end to back-end technologies and stacks with good experience in designing, developing, and operationalizing cloud-native applications using Agile methodologies. This position will be Back-end tech stack focused with a reasonable exposure to Front-end tech stack. 

 

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with product owners and team members to build industry-leading solutions.  

• Design, implement, and manage code within a managed service environment.  

• Build best-in-industry Digital experiences that are truly omni-channel, agile , and scalable.  

• Developing front-end website architecture. 

• Designing user interactions on web pages. 

• Developing back-end website applications. 

• Creating servers and databases for functionality. 

• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones. 

• Ensuring responsiveness of applications. 

• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features. 

• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product. 

• Designing and developing APIs. 

• Collaborate across teams and projects from concept development to project completion.  

• Participate in scrum teams working on short sprints and ensure on-time delivery with high quality.  

• Create and maintain project documents and artifacts to capture the current state.  

• Troubleshoot issues and work with the team to identify and address problems.  

 

Required Skills:  

• Strong hands-on experience with web application development using Java / JavaScript / .NET, REST-full API creation using Spring Boot (for Java-based tech stack) or Node (JS-based tech stack), Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 3.5/4.0 (for Microsoft-based tech stack) 

• Proficiency with server-side languages such as Java, Python, Node, and .Net 

• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, JQuery, and JavaScript 

• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, React with Redux 

• Experience with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc. 

• Experience with relevant code repository and project tools such as Team Foundation Server, SVN, Git, JIRA  

• Ability to integrate APIs, write unit test cases, perform Unit Testing (UT) and System Integration testing (SIT) 

• Experience with developing Cloud-native applications and a very good understanding of Cloud architecture and best practices 

• Working experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment 

• Understanding of existing and emerging web standards such as HTML5 and Mobile 

• Extensive experience in developing solutions using Microservices, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) 

• Demonstrated ability with Application Architecture, best practices, and systems engineering industry trends 

• Solid understanding of Agile application development methodologies and release management